Corn Creek
Box 14, HCR 38
Las Vegas, NV 89124
Location: 27 miles north of Las Vegas off of the 95 Freeway
Established: 1939
Description: Corn Creek Springs was purchased by the U.S. Government to use as a field station for the Desert National Wildlife Range which is part of the national wildlife refuge system.
The best time to view wildlife at Corn Creek is during the Spring, Summer and Fall months. There is a visitors center/contact station where visitors can pick up literature on the refuge. Corn Springs contains an auto-tour route, hiking trails, wilflife viewing sites, archaeological sites, and wilderness areas.
Corn Creek contains an environment filled with trees, pasture and spring-fed ponds. The area attract a large number of migrating birds not common to arid environments. The ponds are home to the endangered Pahrump poolfish which were transplanted in Corn Creek in 1971 when their native habitat at Pahrump Valley's Manse Springs was destroyed.
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